Preliminary results of mapping in the Caledonian rocks of Canning Land and Wegener Halvø, East Greenland

Abstract

The pre-Middle Devonian sediments and igneous rocks of Canning Land and Wegener Halvø (120 km²) were remapped in detail at a scale of 1:50 000 (map 2) during eight weeks of excellent weather in the summer of 1971. This area includes fragments of Caledonian superstructure bounded to the west by Middle Devonian clastics and the Mesozoic terrain of Jameson Land. Canning Land and Wegener Halvø have previously been investigated by Nordenskjold (1907), who gave the first geological map, Noe-Nygaard (1937), who carried out petrographical investigations on the igneous rocks, and Butler (1948), who presented a coherent picture of the stratigraphy and structural geology and a detailed map.